Ok, so I have a gps on the way. I'm looking at ways to power it and I am thinking of hooking up a weatherproof USB power socket. I already have an SAE plug hooked up to my battery for my tender. If I solder an SAE plug to the USB plug will I have an issue with rain at the SAE to SAE connection point?

I almost did the same, but realized whatever was connected would continue to draw power from the battery even with bike off. I wired mine to live wire when the ignition is on.

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Originally Posted by 1Bronco

Ok, so I have a gps on the way. I'm looking at ways to power it and I am thinking of hooking up a weatherproof USB power socket. I already have an SAE plug hooked up to my battery for my tender. If I solder an SAE plug to the USB plug will I have an issue with rain at the SAE to SAE connection point?

I can't speak to whether it's good/better than any others, but it seems that it will be able to take custom routes. If you go to Garmin's website and look under the specs you will see a category called "Routes". My understanding is that as long as that number isn't 0, then it can take a custom route.